The 3 best books by Sue Grafton

Few literary works as a whole offer such a unique glimpse as that written by Sue grafton. This writer, who had published a couple of first novels without much significance, one day set herself the task of writing the series «The alphabet of crime«. It is a library of the black gender which presented a story titled after each of the letters of the alphabet. And the truth is that Sue was close to completing it. She only had the Z of her left, since she had the Y she published it shortly before she died in 2017..., a circumstance that she also has that of hers.

Ignoring his first two novels, thinking about a literary career devoted to this series offers some unique connotations of the writer's craft. Writing is a long-distance race that never meets its end. Sue was left with the Z, any writer will always have his latest novel. It is the charm of being able to entrust yourself to a creative activity that can lead you through life as a kind of professional mission, with an inalienable taste for storytelling.

The researcher Kinsey Millhone, the essential protagonist of the series, accompanied the author for a whopping 35 years, in what is without a doubt the literary series among the series. And with Kinsey Millhone also grew generations of readers who will always think about what that Z book would have been like ...

Top 3 Recommended Novels by Sue Grafton

A for Adultery

For someone who has made his first steps in literature, it is curious to think of that day when Sue sat in front of her computer, or rather a typewriter from the 80s, and thought something like: «I'm going to write a series of novels titled with the 26 letters of the alphabet, let's go there ».

Then she would stretch her back and also her fingers and start typing... It is said that Sue approached this first novel as a projection of her darkest desires.

The process of separating from her partner, with children involved, was a real torture. So nothing better than putting her husband's face on the character of the lawyer Laurence File and starting murdering him… So hatred is also a great source from which to write, especially crime novels.

The point is that, already within the novel, Nikki is accused of murder as a wife scorned by Laurence's affairs. Nikki's destination is jail. But when he comes out of it, he makes a firm decision to discover the truth. Counting on the researcher Kinsey Millhone will be his greatest success.

The truth in the Laurence case is buried many feet underground, but Kinsey is an expert digging hound. The matter is rarefied between past and present, with close ties that link more victims ...

A for adultery

Or hate

Sue Grafton knew how to chain novel after novel without splashing her star character Kinsey on almost any occasion. It was probably an absolutely deliberate intention not to compromise future stories, even more so considering the horizon of the 26 novels.

It's more than likely that the final Z novel, had it existed, would have presented us with a more complete perspective on the brilliant researcher Kinsey, but that's something we'll never know.

Despite what has been said, in this novel certain personal profiles of Kinsey never appeared in previous novels are discovered. And it turns out that good old Kinsey, the confident woman absolutely convinced of her abilities, also lived through her own hell during her first marriage.

It's not about abuse or anything like that. It is rather tragedy as the end of love, and a dark debt to the truth that could have changed everything. The cliché that the past always returns serves us in this novel to discover Kinsey faced with great secrets about her own life, her environment and her past that led her to what she is...

Or hate

Trap T

Kinsey's life seems to turn into a scenario where all the characters insist on making the protagonist mad.

While she wants to focus on her new case, which began as a simple traffic incident task but seems to be taking on a sinister air, her immediate environment seems to conspire to give her the feeling of walking through her particular Truman show.

In some novels by Stephen King estrangement is a tool that the author uses to keep the reader bewildered until he delivers his blows and twists. In a strange world it is easier to assume that anything can happen, that you have to pay more attention to any detail because the script is always there, waiting for a mistake to strike the blow.

A disconcerting novel in which you don't know what to expect, you just sense that it won't be any good.

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